The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-01

several times ran as Democratic candidate for
Governor of the State of Vermont where no
such candidate was ever elected. In 1850 his
Humorous and Satrical Poems" were pub
lished, which in ten years ran through seventeen
editions In 1859 1.-THE Money King and Other
Poems appeared. 1t was dedicated to Mrs
George P Marsh, as former volume had been
dedicated to her husband, once American minis
ter to Rome. In 1862 "The Flying Dutchman"
appeared. In 1864 his "Poetical Works" were
published. In the same year "Clever Stories of
Many Nations In 1865 1.-THE Times, The Tel
egraph and Other Poems" ain 1866 1.-The Mas
querade and Other Poems" In 1872 FABLES
and Legends" and in 1875 Leisure Day
Rhymes" In 1850-55 ne editor of the Bur-
lington VT Sentinel, and was also a prominent
contributor to the Knickerbocker Magazine the
Atlantic Monthly and Harper,s Magazine.
Among his earliest poems were Progress; a
Satire 1.-The Proud Miss Mcbride" written in
l848) and IA New Rape of the Lock" One of
his contributions to the Knickerbocker Magazine
was Rhymes on the Ral'
Singing through the forests, rafting over ridges
Shooting under arches rumbling over bridges
Whizzing through the mountains, buzzing DER the
Bless me- This is pleasant riding the rail.
One of his sweetest poems is college Rem
iniscence," addressed to Thomas B. Thorpe
Gently deceased, a fellow,student; author of
anti-monopoly ring about it that makes it fit
! reading for tn csc days In his Ideal and Real"
he gives us this picture of the real nome:
see a group of boys and girls
Assembled round the knee paternal;
With ruddy cheeks and tangled curls
And manners not at all supernal,
And one has reached manly size.
And one aspires to woman stature,
And one is quite a recent prize,
And all abound in human nature.
His poem on "The Press" which was recited
before the literary societies of Brown University
| in 1855, concludes in these words
Firm in the right the daily press should be,
The tyrant's foe the champion of the free;
Faithful and constant to it's sacred trust
Calm in its utterance in its judgments JUST
Wise in its teachings; uncorrlpt and strong
To speed the right and to denounce the wrong.
Long may it be ere candor must confess
On freed MS shore weak and venal press
His latest publication. Leisure Day Rhymes
| is dedicated to his good friend, Frederick Lock
| er. 1t contains some twenty brief poems. Here
and Thereafter" touches upon subject Of the
ology and creeds, in which he says:
NV creed is short any mans may be,
IT'S written in the Sermon the Mount"
And in the "Pater Noster."
And in another poem, entitled "Miserere
| Domino" he says:
Our Father! ever blessed name
To The we bring sin and shame,
Weak though we be- perverse of WILL
Thou art gracious Father still,
Who knowest well how frail we bs.
| Miserere Domine
Here also appears his ode unvailing the
| bust of John Howard Paine, in Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, Sept. q. 1873 Also his ode to the
| New York Legislature, in which he says that if
| we expected to respect the laws lit is not
| best to see them made" 1t contains, likewise.
| some fifty fables and fairy tales and thirty or
more TRANSACTIONS and paraparases from Plato,
| Beran ger. INLAND and other Greek French and
| German poets.
| Twenty years ago Mr.. SAKE was one of the
| most popular and widely known men in Amer
| lea. He then full of life and in the enjoy
| ment of rpening fame. His society was every
| where courted. Amid fashions throngs. at Sar-
| atoga and elsewhere, he was ever welcome
| guest Invitations to lecture from all
parts of the country, and he had only to mention
| his time and terms Returning from one of his
annual lecture tours. accident happened to the
| train in which he travelling. His injuries
| we're much mental as bodily. and he had since
suffered in both ways. The massive frame was
bent. the flowing locks of luxurant curling hair
| grew thin and the genius that scared with such
majestic fight through realms of wit and humor,
| of grace and tenderness. pned in solitude amid
| the desolations of his cheerful and happy
| home. For twelve fifteen years past ne has
| been physical and mental wreck